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Kickstart is the method of automated installation of Linux Systems based on Red Hat or their clones (CentOS, Scientific Linux, Unbreakable Linux, ...)

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Skip user input when using anaconda with kickstart

When I boot up the first time it always requests user input, in the case of text mode it asks me to press B to continue the installation. I would like to provision the system with no user input. Here is a screenshot of what I am seeing.
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Kickstarting Ubuntu 14.04: How do I create an "EFI boot partition" from my ks.cfg?

I am PXE booting a server that has two 4Gb drives configured in RAID-1 in order to kickstart an instance of Ubuntu Server 14.04. I am PXE booting in EFI mode, and the install runs fine until I get this error on partitioning: The partition table…
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Issue with Centos 7 + kickstart raid configuration

I've had an odd issue trying to set up kickstart with Centos 7. First of all, the relevant portion of the file itself. The following works, although it's not optimal. zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda,sdb part raid.11 --size=500…
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When %post section runs in an automated Linux installation

I know %post section in kickstart runs after RPM packages are installed in a Red Hat based distribution installation. Question: it runs before or after system is rebooted?
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Centos kickstart script url installation with mirror

I have a ks script to install Centos6.5. Inside my local network I have a snapshot of the base package mirror. I want to used as possible as I can my local package site over extranet like http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/. However,…
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kickstart unattended install of OEL 6.5 always asks to check media

My configuration is as follows: Hyper-V 2012 R2 Host Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5 VM Guest being installed from an iso attached to the VM. I created a kickstart file that I have on a NFS share and when I boot the virtual DVD I press tab and append…
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Spacewalk, Kickstart, Cobbler, PXE, Dnsmasq

I have installed a Spacewalk server. One of the final features I am trying to configure is Kickstart. I cannot seem to find any definitive documentation on how to set this up in a "real environment". We already have a DHCP server, I would like to…
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Potential of multiple network interfaces during RHEL deployment

I want to deploy RHEL (6x64, though I think this should be applicable across versions) onto systems which may or may not have more than one NIC card. Will kickstart error if I have multiple lines like network --device=eth0 --bootproto=dhcp network…
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Fresh Red Hat 6.4 kickstarts out-of-date

I am using an updated rhel-x86_64-server-6.4 channel to kickstart RHEL 6.4. What can explain servers being kickstarted with an out-of-date RHEL? I would like to kickstart the server with the latest packages. It uses the same channel for…
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Copy files from custom DVD to RHEL

I have a kickstart based DVD that I want to use to setup a few identicat servers. The DVD is an exact copy of a RHEL iso image, with the addition of a directory named "custom". Under that directory, I have some scripts and some jpgs that I want to…
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ksappend does not work in RHEL/CO 6 any more?

I am currently in the progress of migrating our kickstart-files from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6. In CentOS 5 there was a nice anaconda/kickstart-statement that allowed the inclusion of other kickstart-statements via http. Example: %ksappend…
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Cannot seem to get Ubuntu Kickstart and preseed to cooperate with partitioning

I am trying to set up a minimal installation for some Ubuntu 12.04 workstations where I can pop in a CD-ROM, hit enter a couple times, and have it build me a ready-made system for imaging and deployment. The systems have 3 drives, but since Ubuntu's…
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kickstart partitioning error with LVM

In Kickstart, I keep on getting the error; Adding this partition would not leave enough disk space for already allocated logical volumes in vg_ibus I do not get why I am getting this error. This device (ciss/c0d1) is 450G. I simply want to…
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Kickstart CentOS 6 prompting for TCP/IP with network set to DHCP

I am trying to stop my kickstart CentOS install prompting me for TCP/IP information. After I click through this prompt (keeping IPv4 and IPv6 to their defaults) the installation continues and completes just fine. Below is my kickstart file: #…
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RHEL6 kick start fails with kernel panic - not syncing error

On a brand new (just unboxed) Dell Precision 7500 computer, I began a kickstart using a red hat boot disk and a kickstart file hosted at an http address. There is a picture of the full error below with trace information I believe this is different…
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